SOURCE UNIVERSE
38 companies, 38 different operating systems
37signals
Small teams, career levels, pay and working rituals
Airbyte
Living company processes for trust, transparency and speed
Atlassian
Team health, decisions and actionable team exercises
Automattic
Distributed work, written communication and support rotation
Bending Spoons
High-performance culture, daily operating system, selection and pay mechanisms, and people policies
Buffer
Transparent pay, remote culture and organization experiments
Buurtzorg
Neighbourhood-based, self-managing care teams
Cal.com
Open-source workflow, branch-based releases and mutual hiring trials
dxw
Open playbook governance, structured hiring and bid feedback loops
Elastic
Distributed organization, flexibility and progress-led culture
Fleet
Independent QA, continuous product flow and sales-stage exit rules
GitLab
Handbook-first work, remote operations, decisions and competencies
Hardal
Written remote work, open metrics and team ownership
HashiCorp
Written decisions, explicit operating cadence and principle-led management
Hospitable
Candidate experience through speed, structured stages, and panel design
Langfuse
Project updates, progressive engineering ownership and work-like interviews
Linear
Direction, small scopes and lean work definitions in product development
Mattermost
Distributed coordination through written ownership, calibrated conviction, and living terminology
Morning Star
Mission-focused self-management and peer agreements
Mozilla
Community governance and conduct standards for an open-internet mission
Netflix
Talent density, context-led management and people over process
Niteo
Profit sharing, Kanban, onboarding and everyone participating in support
Okta
Bonus targets, annual RSU grants and employee stock purchase program
Oyster
Follow-the-sun handoffs, asynchronous communication and meeting design
Patagonia
Purpose-led ownership, environmental responsibility and employee support
PostHog
Small autonomous teams, product strategy and hiring bar
Red Hat
Applying open-source principles to organizational work
Remote
Async documentation, visible product flow and distributed people systems
Sourcegraph
High agency, asynchronous work and incremental product development
Sparksuite
Flexibility and coordination through open people policies
Strapi
Moving quickly through an accountable decider, consultation, and visible decision records
Supabase
Async global work, fast design iteration and open contribution
thoughtbot
Consulting delivery through paired work, daily alignment, and continuous learning
Toyota
Production system built on flow, built-in quality and continuous improvement
TrussWorks
Distributed work, onboarding and open-source delivery guides
Warp
Product development that prioritizes user problems and deliberately uses its own tool
Wikimedia Foundation
Values, transparency and open policy governance for free knowledge
Zapier
Remote management, async habits and automation